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[VIDEOS] Rebels seize Syria as Bashar al-Assad leaves the country [Post Updated #49]

Now let's see if ISIS and Al- Qaeda attacks the zionest Terrorists in Syria?

Likely not. As they both are two cheecks of the same backside which includes the zionest Terrorists.

What will happen now is, the zionests extremist cowards will have no one opposing them to conclude the biggest Genocide in decades, and carry on killing innocent Palestinians.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Now let's see if ISIS and Al- Qaeda attacks the zionest Terrorists in Syria?

Likely not. As they both are two cheecks of the same backside which includes the zionest Terrorists.

What will happen now is, the zionests extremist cowards will have no one opposing them to conclude the biggest Genocide in decades, and carry on killing innocent Palestinians.
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Can you discuss any political or international topic without the keywords Zionists, Hindutva etc?

Assad was probably a ruthless dictator like so many before like Saddam, Gaddafi etc etc etc and when deposed their place is always taken up by something even more dangerous and crazy like ISIS, Al-Qaeda etc why don’t you focus on them?

I am pretty sure you were also celebrating when Taliban took over. How is it working out?
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Well said - good analysis.

Although I'm not 100% sure if it's a a big loss for Iran. I think they decided to cut their losses.
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irans axis includes majority shia, or large minority shia countries, syria was the only country, by virtue of their alawite leaders, that had a relatively small shia population but was in the Iranian sphere of influence, it was important because it allowed land access to lebanon. the lack of a large shia population means the likelihood of regaining influence is tiny, and thus supplying and propping Hezbollah in Lebanon is gonna be much harder without syria, or should i say with Israel and turkey being able to disrupt supply lines.

it also sends a clear message to iran's peripheral sphere of influence, the nation does not have the ability to support them when push comes to shove, that will greatly encourage all sunni opposition parties in those countries, as no doubt both saudi and turkey will realise this is a time to act. if i was saudi id go hard on Iraq, a tiny proportion of their wealth could destabilise that country to a level that Iran would end up having to pump a huge chunk of its resources to fight back, greatly weakening Iran in the long run.
 
Local.Dada said:
Can you discuss any political or international topic without the keywords Zionists, Hindutva etc?

Assad was probably a ruthless dictator like so many before like Saddam, Gaddafi etc etc etc and when deposed their place is always taken up by something even more dangerous and crazy like ISIS, Al-Qaeda etc why don’t you focus on them?

I am pretty sure you were also celebrating when Taliban took over. How is it working out?
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Because ISIS And Alqaeda are the creation of CI5 AND MOSAD. The proof in the pudding is there for everyone one to see.

Not once have they attacked the Zionest Extremists, who are hell bent on ethnic cleansing, which proves my point.
 
Israeli war planes have carried out more than 100 air strikes in Syria today, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.


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A lesson for all tyrants and madmen. A lesson also for Pakistan’s criminal establishment. Those that rule by terror and mayhem will ultimately be consumed by the same terror and mayhem.
 
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Syria rescuers end search for secret cells in notorious prison

Rescue workers from the White Helmets say they have ended their search operation for possible detainees in secret cells or basements at Syria's notorious Saydnaya military prison without finding anyone.

Specialised teams assisted by K9 dog units and individuals familiar with the layout combed the prison and its grounds on Monday, as crowds gathered in the hope of finding their missing relatives.

"The search did not uncover any unopened or hidden areas within the facility," a White Helmets statement said.

The news came as rebel fighters said they had found almost 40 bodies showing signs of torture in the mortuary of a hospital in the capital, Damascus.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Islamist militant group whose offensive led to the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday said former senior officials who oversaw the torture of political prisoners during the country's 13-year civil war would be held accountable.

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani said the names of the officials would be published and repatriation sought for those who had fled to other countries. Rewards would also be offered to anyone who provided information about their whereabouts, he added.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, says almost 60,000 people were tortured and killed in the Assad government's prisons.

Human rights groups say more than 100,000 people have disappeared since Assad ordered a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2011 that triggered the civil war.

It estimated that more than 30,000 detainees had either been executed or died as a result of torture, lack of medical care or starvation at the facility between 2011 and 2018.

It also cited released inmates as saying that at least another 500 detainees had been executed between 2018 and 2021.

ADMSP also described how "salt chambers" were constructed to serve as primitive mortuaries to store bodies before they were transferred to Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus for registration and burial in graves on military land. The detainees' families were never given their bodies, it said.

Amnesty International used the phrase "human slaughterhouse" to describe Saydnaya and alleged that the executions had been authorised at the highest levels of the Assad government, and that such practices amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Assad government dismissed Amnesty's claims as "baseless" and "devoid of truth", insisting that all executions in Syria followed due process.

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Israeli strikes appear to have hit the Syrian naval base in Latakia, western Syria

Photos taken by an AFP photographer showed the large-scale destruction of military vessels.

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told reporters Monday that Israel was striking targets in Syria to prevent weapons from falling “into the hands of extremists.”

On Tuesday, the UN special envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen, said: “We are continuing to see Israeli movements and bombardments into Syrian territory. This needs to stop.”

Source: CNN
 
Looks like Turkey and Israel worked together on this just like Azerbaijan, Turkey gave it on a platter.
 
The Arab Sunni Muslim Nations threw Palestinians under the bus just to make Iran and its allies weak.

Who knew Russia was actually keeping ME sane all this time.

I might dislike Iran but hell I have more respect for them than any country out there right now, doubt Israel will stop till Iran are weakened to its entirety.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Because ISIS And Alqaeda are the creation of CI5 AND MOSAD. The proof in the pudding is there for everyone one to see.

Not once have they attacked the Zionest Extremists, who are hell bent on ethnic cleansing, which proves my point.
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There needs to be atleast somewhere that Muslim Nations take responsibility, Turkey send its troops to Syria.
 
JaDed said:
There needs to be atleast somewhere that Muslim Nations take responsibility, Turkey send its troops to Syria.
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Muslim governments were not elected through the democratic process. As you see in Pakistan.

They were PUT in power by the Global Establishment to keep them in control like poodles. Hence, they will not do anything.
 
aboveandbeyond said:
Muslim governments were not elected through the democratic process. As you see in Pakistan.

They were PUT in power by the Global Establishment to keep them in control like poodles.
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Erdogan is though.. I still remember the coup, the guy went out of his way to make Russia irrelevant in ME.
 
JaDed said:
Erdogan is though.. I still remember the coup, the guy went out of his way to make Russia irrelevant in ME.
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Erdogan has more faces than Big Ben. This man says one thing, does another.

He's been selling the Israelis Oil at discount prices.
 
Remember Folks this was shared in NYT, anytime NYT is shared by Pakistani or Bangladeshi posters, I’ll share last two days of news from this Zionist Mouthpiece.

Stephens: Syrians also have Israel to thank for liberation​


By Bret Stephens. / The New York Times

Things could still go badly for Syria following the abrupt downfall of Bashar al-Assad on Saturday and the end of 54 years of ruinous Assad family rule.

The Islamist militia that led the revolt, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Organization for the Liberation of the Levant), has old ties to al-Qaida and remains on the U.S. list of designated terrorist organizations, though its leader now disavows terrorism. The experience of post-revolutionary Arab states — whether in Yemen, Libya, Tunisia or Egypt — has not been a happy one.

Foreign powers, particularly Turkey, may seek to replace Iran’s former dominance in the country with their own. And Syria’s ethnic and sectarian divisions among Alawites, Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs could still prove explosive, with spillover effects in Jordan, Lebanon and other neighbors.

Yet this is also a moment of opportunity for a country that has mainly known dictatorship since it became independent in the 1940s. Political prisoners — including one former pilot who spent 43 years in prison for refusing to bomb the regime’s domestic opponents — are being freed. Millions of Syrians driven from their homes by 13 years of civil war and repression have a chance to return.

The country can also put an end to the quasi-occupation by the foreign military powers that propped up al-Assad’s rule: Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Russian military. The sight of Syrians ransacking Iran’s embassy in Damascus, Syria — with portraits of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and the Revolutionary Guard’s Qassem Soleimani torn to shreds — is evidence of just what Syrians think of the “Axis of Resistance” led by Iran.

It’s a good thing that Syrians are the principal agents of their own liberation. But it’s no secret that Assad’s downfall was largely brought about because his allies no longer had the will nor wherewithal to defend him. The Russian air force, whose planes smashed Aleppo, Syria, in 2016, was too enfeebled by losses in Ukraine to do much in Syria. Hezbollah, decimated by Israel’s exploding pagers, airstrikes and ground incursions, could no longer provide al-Assad with the foot soldiers he once used to starve his people into submission.

As for Iran, Israel’s retaliatory strike in late October on key military facilities left it too weakened and exposed to save al-Assad. Iran is now rapidly withdrawing its once-considerable military presence in Syria. Cut off from this military supply chain, Hezbollah has never been in a more precarious position, giving the Lebanese people their own rare opportunity to bring this terrorist militia to heel and restore their sovereignty after decades of de facto Syrian and Iranian occupation.


The original article is on NYTIMES
 
Rebel-backed figure takes charge as Syria's interim prime minister

Syria's new interim leader announced on Tuesday he was taking charge of the country as caretaker prime minister with the backing of the former rebels who toppled President Bashar al-Assad three days ago.

In a brief address on state television, Mohammed al-Bashir, a figure little known across most of Syria who previously ran an administration in a pocket of the northwest controlled by rebels, said he would lead the interim authority until March 1.

"Today we held a cabinet meeting that included a team from the Salvation government that was working in Idlib and its vicinity, and the government of the ousted regime," he said.

"The meeting was under the headline of transferring the files and institutions to caretake the government."
Behind him were two flags - the green, black and white flag flown by opponents of Assad throughout the civil war, and a white flag with the Islamic oath of faith in black writing, typically flown in Syria by Sunni Islamist fighters.


 
Israel confirms attack on Syrian naval fleet

Israel has confirmed it carried out attacks on Syria's naval fleet, as part of its efforts to neutralise military assets in the country after the fall of the Assad regime.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its ships struck the ports at Al-Bayda and Latakia on Monday night, where 15 vessels were docked.

The BBC has verified videos showing blasts at the port of Latakia, with footage appearing to show extensive damage to ships and parts of the port.

The IDF also said its warplanes had conducted more than 350 air strikes on targets across Syria, while moving ground forces into the demilitarised buffer zone between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights.

Earlier, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said it had documented more than 310 strikes by the IDF since the Syrian government was overthrown by rebels on Sunday.

In a statement, Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said the IDF was aiming to "destroy strategic capabilities that threaten the State of Israel".

He added that the operation to destroy the Syrian fleet had been a "great success".

The IDF said a wide range of targets had been struck - including airfields, military vehicles, anti-aircraft weapons and arms production sites - in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as well as Homs, Tartus and Palmyra.

It also targeted weapon warehouses, ammunition depots and "dozens" of sea-to-sea missiles.

It added that it had done so to prevent them "from falling into the hands of extremists".

In a video message, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Syrian rebel group that ousted President Bashar al-Assad, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), that Israel would "respond forcefully" if they allow Iran to "re-establish itself in Syria".

He has previously expressed a desire for peaceful ties with the new Syrian government, and cast its interventions as defensive.

Rami Abdul Rahman, the founder of the SOHR, described the impact of the strikes as destroying "all the capabilities of the Syrian army" and said that "Syrian lands are being violated".

Meanwhile, the IDF also confirmed it had troops operating in Syrian territory beyond the buffer zone bordering the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The IDF acknowledged that its troops had entered Syrian territory but told the BBC that reports of tanks approaching Damascus were "false".

It said some troops had been stationed within the Area of Separation that borders the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights "and then a few additional points".

"When we say a few additional points, we're talking the area of the Area of Separation, or the area of the buffer zone in vicinity," IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani told the BBC.

BBC Verify has geolocated an image of an IDF soldier standing just over half a kilometre beyond the demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, inside Syria on a hillside near the village of Kwdana.

On Monday, the Israeli military released photos of its troops who crossed from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights into the demilitarised buffer zone in Syria where UN peacekeepers are based.

The IDF seizure of Syrian positions in the buffer zone was a "temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is found", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

"If we can establish neighbourly relations and peaceful relations with the new forces emerging in Syria, that's our desire. But if we do not, we will do whatever it takes to defend the State of Israel and the border of Israel," he said on Monday.

Turkeys foreign ministry condemned Israel's entry into the buffer zone, accusing it of an "occupying mentality" during a "sensitive period, when the possibility of achieving the peace and stability the Syrian people have desired for many years has emerged".

This buffer zone, also known as the Area of Separation was set up as part of Israel's ceasefire agreement with Syria in 1974 to keep Israeli and Syrian forces separated, following Israel's earlier occupation of the Golan Heights.

Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan in 1981. The move was not recognised internationally, although the US did so unilaterally in 2019.

"That's why we attack strategic weapons systems like, for example, remaining chemical weapons or long-range missiles and rockets in order that they will not fall into the hands of extremists," he said.

On Monday, the UN's chemical watchdog warns authorities in Syria to ensure that suspected stockpiles of chemical weapons are safe.

It is not known where or how many chemical weapons Syria has, but it's believed former President Assad kept stockpiles.

Israel's attacks come after Syrian rebel fighters captured the capital, Damascus, as Assad fled the country, reportedly for Russia. He, and before him his father, had been in power in the country since 1971.

Forces led by the Islamist opposition group HTS entered Damascus in the early hours of Sunday, before appearing on state television to declare that Syria was now "free".

BBC
 

Russia calls for rapid Syria stabilization, criticizes Israel​


The Kremlin said Wednesday that it wanted to see rapid stabilization in Syria, criticizing Israeli strikes and its creation of a “buffer zone” along the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

Russia also said its military offensive on Ukraine remained its “absolute priority” amid questions over whether Moscow’s almost three-year campaign there meant it could not support long-term ally Bashar al-Assad in the face of the lightning opposition offensive.

“We would like to see the situation in the country stabilized somehow as soon as possible,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

He also condemned Israel’s strikes on Syrian military installations and the establishment of a “buffer zone” as aggravating the crisis.

“The strikes, the actions in the Golan Heights and the buffer zone hardly contribute to the stabilization of the situation in the already destabilized Syria,” he said.

Russia was continuing to discuss the fate of its military infrastructure in the country with Syria’s new leadership, Peskov said.

“We are in contact with those who control the situation in Syria. This is necessary since our (military) base and diplomatic mission are there,” Peskov said.

The Tartus naval base and Hmeimim air base in Syria are Russia’s only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union and have been key to the Kremlin’s activities in Africa and the Middle East.

Russia’s 2015 intervention turned the tide of the Syrian civil war and is widely credited with saving al-Assad’s regime as it fought a myriad group of opposition forces.

But with Moscow bogged down with its military offensive on Ukraine, some analysts say it did not have the resources or energy to come to his rescue again.

“The special military operation is the absolute priority for our country,” Peskov said Thursday, using Moscow’s preferred language for the offensive.

“All the objectives of the special military operation will be achieved,” he added.

 
Give it a few months I guarantee you this jolani will get killed

And this will ensure the country decends into a massive civil war with the various groups.
 
Jolani: Those involved in torturing and killing detainees under Assad won't be pardoned

Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani says people responsible for torturing and killing detainees under the Assad regime will not be pardoned by his government.

In a statement on Telegram, Jolani said that those who were involved would be pursued in Syria.

"We will pursue them in Syria, and we ask countries to hand over those who fled so we can achieve justice," he added.

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US congressmen push for sanctions relief for Syria

Two US congressman have urged senior American officials to suspend some sanctions on Syria to ease pressure on its economy, according to a letter seen by the Reuters news agency.

The letter was signed by Republican Joe Wilson, who chairs the foreign affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, and Democrat Brendan Boyle, who chairs the Free Syria caucus.

It says parts of the Caesar Act, which limits US dealings with Syria or with Russian and Iranian entities in Syria, should be repealed.

The congressman wrote that while keeping sanctions on former government officials was important, they believed "that other parts of the legislation - such as sectoral sanctions and sanctions related to reconstruction" should be suspended.

The letter said the US must issue waivers to encourage economic development and foreign investment in Syria and to "build good will".

The Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) rebel group has told business leaders it will adopt a free-market model and integrate the country into the global economy.

A source close to HTS told Reuters yesterday that the group was in touch with US officials over lifting parts of the Caesar Act.

Sky News
 

Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father​


Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's hometown.

Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region.

The rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) swept across Syria in a lightning offensive that toppled the Assad dynasty's 54-year rule. Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia where he and his family have been given asylum.

Statues and posters of Hafez and his son have been pulled down across the country to cheers from Syrians celebrating the end of their rule.

In 2011, Bashar al-Assad brutally crushed a peaceful pro-democracy uprising, sparking a devastating civil war in which more than half a million people have been killed and 12 million others forced to flee their homes.

Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria ruthlessly from 1971 until his death in 2000, when power was handed to his son.

He was born and raised in a family of Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam and a religious minority in Syria, whose main centre of population is in Latakia province near the Mediterranean coast near the border with Turkey.

Many Alawites - who make up about 10% of the country's population - were staunch supporters of the Assads during their long stay in power.

Some of them now fear that they may be targeted by the victorious rebels.

On Monday, a rebel delegation with members of HTS and another Sunni Muslim group, the Free Syrian Army, met Qardaha elders and received their support, according to Reuters news agency.

The rebel delegation signed a document, which Reuters reported emphasised Syria's religious and cultural diversity.

HTS and allied rebel factions seized control of the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday after years of civil war.

HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who has now started using his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is a former jihadist who cut ties with al-Qaeda in 2016. He has recently pledged tolerance for different religious groups and communities.

The UN envoy for Syria has said the rebels must transform their "good messages" into practice on the ground.

The US secretary of state meanwhile said Washington would recognise and fully support a future Syrian government so long as it emerged from a credible, inclusive process that respected minorities.

HTS has appointed a transitional government led by Mohammed al-Bashir, the former head of the rebel administration in the north-west, until March 2025.

Bashir chaired a meeting in Damascus on Tuesday attended by members of his new government and those of Assad's former cabinet to discuss the transfer of portfolios and institutions.

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Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez

Armed men are seen celebrating in Hafez al-Assad's burning mausoleum in the family's hometown.
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FearlessRoar said:

Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father​


Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family's hometown.

Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region.

The rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) swept across Syria in a lightning offensive that toppled the Assad dynasty's 54-year rule. Bashar al-Assad has fled to Russia where he and his family have been given asylum.

Statues and posters of Hafez and his son have been pulled down across the country to cheers from Syrians celebrating the end of their rule.

In 2011, Bashar al-Assad brutally crushed a peaceful pro-democracy uprising, sparking a devastating civil war in which more than half a million people have been killed and 12 million others forced to flee their homes.

Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria ruthlessly from 1971 until his death in 2000, when power was handed to his son.

He was born and raised in a family of Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam and a religious minority in Syria, whose main centre of population is in Latakia province near the Mediterranean coast near the border with Turkey.

Many Alawites - who make up about 10% of the country's population - were staunch supporters of the Assads during their long stay in power.

Some of them now fear that they may be targeted by the victorious rebels.

On Monday, a rebel delegation with members of HTS and another Sunni Muslim group, the Free Syrian Army, met Qardaha elders and received their support, according to Reuters news agency.

The rebel delegation signed a document, which Reuters reported emphasised Syria's religious and cultural diversity.

HTS and allied rebel factions seized control of the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday after years of civil war.

HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who has now started using his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is a former jihadist who cut ties with al-Qaeda in 2016. He has recently pledged tolerance for different religious groups and communities.

The UN envoy for Syria has said the rebels must transform their "good messages" into practice on the ground.

The US secretary of state meanwhile said Washington would recognise and fully support a future Syrian government so long as it emerged from a credible, inclusive process that respected minorities.

HTS has appointed a transitional government led by Mohammed al-Bashir, the former head of the rebel administration in the north-west, until March 2025.

Bashir chaired a meeting in Damascus on Tuesday attended by members of his new government and those of Assad's former cabinet to discuss the transfer of portfolios and institutions.

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Syria rebels burn tomb of Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez

Armed men are seen celebrating in Hafez al-Assad's burning mausoleum in the family's hometown.
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He was a horrible, evil man but why not just bury him in an unknown grave. Burning is unislamic as the guys murderous reign.
 
Bewal Express said:
He was a horrible, evil man but why not just bury him in an unknown grave. Burning is unislamic as the guys murderous reign.
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Like I said give it a few months all these factions will be fighting against each other .

With the usa/ Europeans and Israelis taking parcels of lands like the crusader days.


As for the burning of tomb come on bewal you know your pti especially the kpk branch wouldn't do any worse they have amongst their ranks people who played football with the heads of decapitated pakistani soldiers.

What do you think your movement is if it's not an anarchist movement wanting to turn pakistan into another Iraq syria lebanon and outside powers coming to occupy and take enclaves and military zones.
 
mazkhan said:
Like I said give it a few months all these factions will be fighting against each other .

With the usa/ Europeans and Israelis taking parcels of lands like the crusader days.


As for the burning of tomb come on bewal you know your pti especially the kpk branch wouldn't do any worse they have amongst their ranks people who played football with the heads of decapitated pakistani soldiers.

What do you think your movement is if it's not an anarchist movement wanting to turn pakistan into another Iraq syria lebanon and outside powers coming to occupy and take enclaves and military zones.
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So within the PTI? What is wrong with you. A beghairat like you supported the massacre of 100s of young, unarmed people that were asking for a govt of their choice. Your haraamis murdered these young people in cold blood and you defended them. You claimed they were Afghans but you couldn't provide a single iota of credible proof. What kind of animal supports a massacre?
 
Syrian refugees in Europe fear being forced home after Assad's fall

Najem al-Moussa was delighted when news of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow first beamed from the television in his tiny Athens apartment.

Then came a dreaded thought: what if Assad's fall meant he and his family would be forced to return to the devastated country they had fled nine years before?

Events in Syria took a seismic turn on Sunday when rebels poured into Damascus after a lightning offensive that forced Assad into exile in Russia and raised hopes of an end to a 13-year civil war that has left the country in ruins.

Now, as European countries rethink their asylum policies for Syrians in the light of developments, many fear they will have to go back.

"I consider my life to be here. Not just me but my children," said al-Moussa, a lawyer by training who works as a cook in Athens and has been transfixed by the television news for days. "The life that was provided in Greece, my country was not able to offer."

Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Syria's war, which began in 2011 and pitted Assad's army against various rebel groups. Whole cities have been flattened by bombing. Millions fled or are in need of humanitarian assistance.

Thousands of civilians who moved to neighbouring Turkey and Lebanon rushed back into Syria this week, their cars filled with people, luggage, and hope of a peaceful homecoming.

But 10 Syrian refugees who spoke to Reuters in Europe and the United Kingdom thought differently. Returning would mean an end to a new life they have risked everything to build.

Al-Moussa and his wife Bushra al-Bukaai fled Damascus in 2015 after the birth of their second child. They spent everything they had on a two-year journey that took them to Sudan, Iran, Turkey and eventually Greece.

They now have five children who are all in school and speak fluent Greek. None speak the Arabic of their parents' homeland.

"When we talk, they ask: 'Daddy, can we really go back to living in these areas? How did you live there before?'," Al-Moussa said.

His wife agrees. "I cannot imagine my children building their future in Syria. Not at all," she said, their youngest son in her lap.

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First-time asylum applications by Syrians to the EU were highest in 2015 and 2016 - more than 330,000 in each of those years - before dropping off significantly in the next three years, EU data show. But applications trebled between 2020 and 2023 after a devastating earthquake and as violence and economic hardship persisted.

Thousands of those applications are now on hold after several European countries including Greece this week suspended asylum applications from Syrians while they consider if Syria is safer now that Assad has gone.

It is not clear if asylum seekers will be forced home. ProAsyl, a German NGO providing legal help to asylum seekers, said cases would be in limbo until the foreign ministry publishes its updated security assessment report on Syria, which could take months.

ProAsyl spokesperson Tareq Alaows told Reuters the decision could face legal challenges as authorities in Europe must decide on asylum applications within three to six months of their submission.

Still, Al-Moussa's Greek residence permit is up for renewal and he is worried. He is not alone.

Syrian vet Hasan Alzagher was in a German language class in the city of Erfurt on Monday when he heard that his asylum application for Germany, which he hoped would be finalised by the end of the year, was put on hold.

"This is mentally devastating. It's difficult that after you set your mind to live here, build a new life here, learn the language and integrate in this country, you now have to return to your homeland where basic necessities are still missing," he told Reuters by phone.

In fear of being recruited into the army or a militia group, Alzagher, 32, said he fled the city of Raqqa in 2018. He spent time in Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey before heading to Germany in 2023.

"The fall of Assad is a huge joy for all Syrians, but we who came here and went into debt to finance this journey, every time we arrive in a new place, we have to start over again. It's difficult to think about returning to Syria now."

Alzagher's worries were echoed by Syrians in the United Kingdom, which has also paused decisions on asylum claims.

Syrian refugee Zafer Nahhas applied for a British PhD programme just two days before the fall of the Assad regime. Nahhas, 34, from Aleppo, said he was a wanted man in Syria after participating in an anti-government protest there. His grandfather was jailed for 13 years and many of his friends have been detained and tortured, he said.

He has been granted asylum in the UK, but is nervous now, especially as his wife is pregnant.

The "possibility that they (UK authorities) could blindly reverse some decisions without any personal circumstances being factored in" was worrying, he said by phone.

"It's a whirlwind of thoughts, uncertainties and unnecessary additional concerns in our lives."

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Syria rebel leader vows to shut down notorious Assad prisons

Syrian rebel forces have said they plan to close the notoriously harsh prisons run by ousted president Bashar al-Assad and hunt those involved in the killing or torture of detainees.

Rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, also said he would dissolve the security forces of the former regime, in a statement seen by the Reuters news agency.

Videos showing thousands of prisoners being freed from Saydnaya prison - referred to as a "human slaughterhouse" by rights groups - surfaced after the collapse of the Assad government on Sunday.

Almost 60,000 people were tortured and killed in the prisons run by Assad, UK-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Jolani's Islamist militant group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led other Syrian rebel factions in a lightning offensive that toppled the Assad dynasty's 54-year-rule.

Assad fled to Russia in the early hours of Sunday, where he and his family have been given asylum, after rebels captured the capital Damascus.

In a separate statement, Jolani said pardons for those who took part in the torture or killing of prisoners were out of the question.

"We will pursue them in Syria, and we ask countries to hand over those who fled so we can achieve justice," he said.

Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad Syrians have rushed to the regime's infamous prisons, desperately searching for their loved ones. In a 2022 report, the Turkey-based Association of Detainees and The Missing in Saydnaya Prison (ADMSP) said Saydnaya "effectively became a death camp" after the start of the civil war in 2011.

Jolani also said he would dissolve the former Assad regime's security forces. It is not clear how quickly they could be reconstituted by rebel fighters amid concerns about Israeli strikes on the country's military infrastructure.

In the statement seen by Reuters, Jolani said his group was working with international organisations to secure possible chemical weapons sites.

When asked about the Reuters report, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said the US "welcomed" Jolani's words but said they needed to be met with actions.

"Our focus is that these chemical weapons do not fall into the wrong hands", she added.

This comes after Israel carried out hundreds of strikes across Syria and seized a number of military assets.

One of the attacks targeted a research centre with suspected links to chemical weapon production, according to local media reports.

Israel says it is acting to stop weapons falling "into the hands of extremists".

A chemical weapon is described by the UN's chemical watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as a chemical used to cause intentional death or harm through its toxic properties.

Their use is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

Between 2013 to 2018, Human Rights Watch documented at least 85 chemical weapons attacks in Syria, accusing the ousted government of being responsible for most of them.

Assad's government denied ever using chemical weapons.

Syria signed the OPCW's Chemical Weapons Certificate in 2013, a month after a chemical weapons attack on suburbs of Damascus left more than 1,400 people dead.

It is not known how many chemical weapons Syria has, but it's believed Assad kept stockpiles and that the declaration he had made was incomplete.

Victims of chemical attacks in Syria have recently spoken to the BBC about the devastating impacts they've experienced.

Meanwhile, European foreign ministers are meeting in Berlin on Thursday to hold critical talks on Syria and Ukraine.

A day later, leaders of the G7 countries will also discuss the latest developments in Syria at a virtual meeting, the White House said.

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ISIS coming out of hiding, top Syrian commander warns

A top commander in Syria has warned that a resurgent ISIS is starting to take advantage of the chaotic fall of Bashar al Assad.

The lightning advance by opposition groups on Damascus has been the focus of much attention but the revolution has created power vacuums across the country.

What's happening in Syria is an opportunity but also a moment of great jeopardy.

As the country struggles to emerge from the darkness and brutality of the Assad regime many groups are vying for position in this new reality - and it is in that space that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to gather strength.

In the northeast, the Kurds are worried about what may happen.

One of the most important figures in this region is General Abdi Mazloum, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

He is warning the West that ISIS is already trying to exploit the turmoil.

"ISIS is now stronger in the Syrian desert. Previously, they were in remote areas and hiding, but now they have greater freedom of movement since they face no issues with other groups and are not engaged in conflict with them," he tells Sky News.

He adds: "In the areas under our control, their activities have also increased. Just a few days ago, three members of the Internal Security Forces were killed near al Hassakah in an ISIS operation."

Since the civil war began, Syria has been divided into different areas of control.

Regional and international powers also held sway in certain parts - the Turks, the Russians, the Iranians and the United States.

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FearlessRoar said:
ISIS coming out of hiding, top Syrian commander warns

A top commander in Syria has warned that a resurgent ISIS is starting to take advantage of the chaotic fall of Bashar al Assad.

The lightning advance by opposition groups on Damascus has been the focus of much attention but the revolution has created power vacuums across the country.

What's happening in Syria is an opportunity but also a moment of great jeopardy.

As the country struggles to emerge from the darkness and brutality of the Assad regime many groups are vying for position in this new reality - and it is in that space that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to gather strength.

In the northeast, the Kurds are worried about what may happen.

One of the most important figures in this region is General Abdi Mazloum, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

He is warning the West that ISIS is already trying to exploit the turmoil.

"ISIS is now stronger in the Syrian desert. Previously, they were in remote areas and hiding, but now they have greater freedom of movement since they face no issues with other groups and are not engaged in conflict with them," he tells Sky News.

He adds: "In the areas under our control, their activities have also increased. Just a few days ago, three members of the Internal Security Forces were killed near al Hassakah in an ISIS operation."

Since the civil war began, Syria has been divided into different areas of control.

Regional and international powers also held sway in certain parts - the Turks, the Russians, the Iranians and the United States.

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ISIS may target the Genocidal brigade!

Ho wait, MOSAD says jump, ISIS say how high.
 

Syrians should decide their future without 'external imposition': Pakistan​


Pakistan has said that the people of Syria have the right to decide their future by making decisions without any foreign interference or external imposition.

These comments were made by Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch as Syria deals with the aftermath of president Bashar al-Assad's ouster by rebels earlier this week.

Following Assad's removal from power, spearheaded by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, Mohammed al-Bashir was appointed to lead the country's interim administration until March.

"We are following developments in Syria and are concerned about the escalation in violence. We express full support for the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria,” Baloch said during weekly press briefing on Thursday.

Baloch said that Islamabad has always supported the efforts aimed at finding a comprehensive solution to the crisis in Syria.

Expressing Pakistan's concerns at the Israeli aggression, illegal seizure and widespread destruction in Syria, Baloch said this assault on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria is a grave breach of international law.

“We express support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and reject Israeli acquisition of territory by force. We reaffirm our support for the UN Security Council Resolution 497, which declares Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights null and void and without international legal effect," said the spokesperson.

475 Pakistanis cross Syrian border

Regarding the repatriation of stranded Pakistanis from Syria, the spokesperson said that the foreign ministry and Pakistan’s missions in Syria and Lebanon remained actively engaged in facilitating the process.

“Around 475 Pakistanis including around 250 zaireen have crossed the Syrian border into Lebanon. They will be transferred from Beirut to Islamabad. We appreciate the support extended by the Government of Lebanon in facilitating the safe return of the stranded Pakistani nationals from Syria," said Baloch.

Pakistan concerned about terror groups' activities

The spokesperson also talked about the terror attack in Afghanistan's Kabul on Wednesday, saying Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had expressed “shock” at the incident as “any terror activity with whatsoever motive, shall be condemned and Pakistan has unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.”

She reiterated that Pakistan was deeply concerned about the activities of terror groups endangering the lives of Pakistani people.

“The terror groups that found hideouts in Afghanistan and operating against Pakistan remain a serious concern for Pakistan. This issue is on the agenda between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

We have always emphasised dialogue to resolve the issues, and we hope that we will be able to ensure that these terror groups do not pose a threat to Pakistan’s security,” the spokesperson remarked.

Asked about the engagement of Pakistan with the upcoming US administration on the issue of terrorism, she said that it was in the mutual interest to continue dialogue and cooperation on issues related to terrorism and transnational organised crimes. This remains a priority for Pakistan in its engagement with the US and other friendly countries.

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Syrians should decide their future without 'external imposition': Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has said that the people of Syria have the right to decide their future by making decisions without any foreign interference or external imposition.These comments were made...
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The kurds are having issues controlling the area they are fighting the turkish backed rebels and isis is trying to reastablish itself
That means the camps are under threat shamima begum needs to be bought back into the UK the safety of those women is no longer secure .
 
FearlessRoar said:

Syrians should decide their future without 'external imposition': Pakistan​


Pakistan has said that the people of Syria have the right to decide their future by making decisions without any foreign interference or external imposition.

These comments were made by Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch as Syria deals with the aftermath of president Bashar al-Assad's ouster by rebels earlier this week.

Following Assad's removal from power, spearheaded by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group and its allies, Mohammed al-Bashir was appointed to lead the country's interim administration until March.

"We are following developments in Syria and are concerned about the escalation in violence. We express full support for the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Syria,” Baloch said during weekly press briefing on Thursday.

Baloch said that Islamabad has always supported the efforts aimed at finding a comprehensive solution to the crisis in Syria.

Expressing Pakistan's concerns at the Israeli aggression, illegal seizure and widespread destruction in Syria, Baloch said this assault on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria is a grave breach of international law.

“We express support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria and reject Israeli acquisition of territory by force. We reaffirm our support for the UN Security Council Resolution 497, which declares Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights null and void and without international legal effect," said the spokesperson.

475 Pakistanis cross Syrian border

Regarding the repatriation of stranded Pakistanis from Syria, the spokesperson said that the foreign ministry and Pakistan’s missions in Syria and Lebanon remained actively engaged in facilitating the process.

“Around 475 Pakistanis including around 250 zaireen have crossed the Syrian border into Lebanon. They will be transferred from Beirut to Islamabad. We appreciate the support extended by the Government of Lebanon in facilitating the safe return of the stranded Pakistani nationals from Syria," said Baloch.

Pakistan concerned about terror groups' activities

The spokesperson also talked about the terror attack in Afghanistan's Kabul on Wednesday, saying Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had expressed “shock” at the incident as “any terror activity with whatsoever motive, shall be condemned and Pakistan has unequivocally condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.”

She reiterated that Pakistan was deeply concerned about the activities of terror groups endangering the lives of Pakistani people.

“The terror groups that found hideouts in Afghanistan and operating against Pakistan remain a serious concern for Pakistan. This issue is on the agenda between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

We have always emphasised dialogue to resolve the issues, and we hope that we will be able to ensure that these terror groups do not pose a threat to Pakistan’s security,” the spokesperson remarked.

Asked about the engagement of Pakistan with the upcoming US administration on the issue of terrorism, she said that it was in the mutual interest to continue dialogue and cooperation on issues related to terrorism and transnational organised crimes. This remains a priority for Pakistan in its engagement with the US and other friendly countries.

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Th Pakistan foreign minister clearly doesn't understand the concept of irony.
 
Turkish army and the rebels backed by Turkey are committing genocide on Kurds.

If anyone deserves a nation of their own, its the Kurds. Their culture and civilization are more than 3000 years old. Turks in Anatolia are barely 500 years old. Occupying Turks do not recognize Kurds and want to stamp them out of existence.

The genocide of Kurds has been going on for centuries and accelerated in the last century.
 
So one of the followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the ex-leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq responsible for butchering Shias in their sectarian civil war, is now going to protect the Shias and minorities of Syria.

Okay then.

I'm not a Shia before anyone asks, but anyone who indulges in violent sectarianism of any kind is unforgivable IMO.
 
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Turkish army and the rebels backed by Turkey are committing genocide on Kurds.

If anyone deserves a nation of their own, its the Kurds. Their culture and civilization are more than 3000 years old. Turks in Anatolia are barely 500 years old. Occupying Turks do not recognize Kurds and want to stamp them out of existence.

The genocide of Kurds has been going on for centuries and accelerated in the last century.
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They need to get stronger then, Kurdish in Western nations should had built a scientific community to help themselves but instead they take the worst of West.
 
318 Pakistani citizens evacuated from Syria via Beirut on PM Shehbaz's directive

318 Pakistani citizens stranded in Syria were evacuated on Thursday via a special chartered flight on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's directive.

According to details, the effort, facilitated through Beirut, was the result of continuous review meetings chaired by the prime minister. In his bid to ensure the safe return of citizens, PM Shehbaz also held discussions with the Lebanese prime minister. The relentless efforts of the prime minister enabled the evacuation through Beirut.

Pakistan's ambassador bid farewell to the departing citizens at the Beirut airport. The chartered flight is expected to land at Islamabad International Airport during the night of December 13.

Upon arrival in Islamabad, the returnees will be welcomed by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, along with representatives from the PM Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and NDMA.

The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis has set up a special assistance desk and arranged refreshments for the passengers to facilitate the returning citizens.

Meanwhile, the PM Shehbaz-led government has remained committed to the protection and welfare of citizens abroad.

The government has continued to take all possible measures to ensure the safe repatriation of Pakistanis in distress.



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Trump says Syria 'not our fight'. Staying out may not be so easy

When Donald Trump sat with world leaders in Paris last weekend to marvel at the restored Notre Dame cathedral, armed Islamist fighters in Syria were in jeeps on the road to Damascus finalising the fall of the Assad regime.

In this split screen moment of global news, the US president-elect, seated between the French first couple, still had an eye on the stunning turn of events in the Middle East.

"Syria is a mess, but is not our friend," he posted the same day on his Truth Social network.

He added: "THE UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT. LET IT PLAY OUT. DO NOT GET INVOLVED!"

This post, and another the next day, were a reminder of the president-elect's powerful mandate to not intervene in foreign policy.

It also raised big questions about what comes next: Given the way the war has drawn in and affected regional and global powers, can Trump really have "nothing to do" with Syria now that President Bashar al-Assad's government has fallen?

Will Trump pull US troops out?

Does his policy differ drastically from President Biden's, and if so, what's the point of the White House doing anything in the five weeks before Trump takes over?

The current administration is involved in a frantic round of diplomacy in response to the fall of Assad and the rise to power of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Syrian Islamist armed group that the US designates as a terrorist organisation.

I'm writing this onboard Secretary of State Antony Blinken's plane, as he shuttles between Jordan and Turkey trying to get key Arab and Muslim countries in the region to back a set of conditions Washington is placing on recognising a future Syrian government.

The US says it must be transparent and inclusive, must not be a "base for terrorism", cannot threaten Syria's neighbours, and must destroy any chemical and biological weapons stocks.

For Mike Waltz, Trump's nominee for national security adviser, who has yet to be confirmed, there is one guiding principle to his foreign policy.

"President Trump was elected with an overwhelming mandate to not get the United States dug into any more Middle Eastern wars," he told Fox News this week.

He went on to list America's "core interests" there as the Islamic State (IS) group, Israel and "our Gulf Arab allies".

Waltz's comments were a neat summary of the Trump view of Syria as a small jigsaw piece in his bigger regional policy puzzle.

His goals are to ensure that remnants of IS remain contained and to see that a future government in Damascus can't threaten Washington's most important regional ally, Israel.

Trump is also focused on what he sees as the biggest prize: a historic diplomatic and trade deal to normalise relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which he believes would further weaken and humiliate Iran.

The rest, Trump believes, is Syria's "mess" to work out.

Trump's rhetoric harkens back to how he talked about Syria during his first term, when he derided the country – which has an extraordinary cultural history dating back millennia - as a land of "sand and death".

"Donald Trump, himself, I think really wanted very little to do with Syria during his first administration," said Robert Ford, who served as President Barack Obama's ambassador to Syria from 2011-14, and who argued within that administration for more American intervention in the form of support for Syrian moderate opposition groups to counter Assad's brutal suppression of his population.

"But there are other people in his circle who are much more concerned about counterterrorism," he told the BBC.

The US currently has around 900 troops in Syria east of the Euphrates river and in a 55km (34 miles) "deconfliction" zone bordering Iraq and Jordan.

Their official mission is to counter the IS group, now much degraded in desert camps, and to train and equip the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF - Kurdish and Arab allies of the US who control the territory).

The SDF also guards camps containing IS fighters and their families.

In practice, the US presence on the ground has also gone beyond this, helping to block a potential weapons transit route for Iran, which used Syria to supply its ally Hezbollah.

Mr Ford, like other analysts, believes that while Trump's isolationist instincts play well on social media, the realities on the ground and the views of his own team could end up moderating his stance.

That view is echoed by Wa'el Alzayat, a former adviser on Syria at the US Department of State.

"He is bringing on board some serious people to his administration who will be running his Middle East file," he told the BBC, specifically noting that Senator Marco Rubio, who has been nominated for secretary of state, "is a serious foreign policy player".

These tensions – between isolationist ideals and regional goals – also came to a head during his first term, when Trump withdrew remaining CIA funding for some "moderate" rebels, and ordered the withdrawal of US forces from northern Syria in 2019.

At the time, Waltz called the move "a strategic mistake" and, fearing an IS resurgence, Trump's own officials partially rowed back his decision.

Trump also diverged from his non-interventionist ideals by launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian airfield, after Assad allegedly ordered a chemical weapons attack that killed scores of civilians in 2017.

He also doubled down on sanctions against Syria's leadership.

The blurred lines of Trump's "it's not our fight" pledge were summed up by Waltz.

"That doesn't mean he's not willing to absolutely step in," he told Fox News.

"President Trump has no problem taking decisive action if the American homeland is threatened in any way."

Adding to the possibility of tension is another key figure, Tulsi Gabbard, who Trump has nominated as director of national intelligence. The controversial former Democrat-turned-Trump ally met Assad in 2017 on a "fact-finding" trip, and at the time criticised Trump's policies.

Her nomination is likely to be heavily scrutinised by US senators amid accusations – that she has denied - of being an apologist for Assad and Russia.

Anxiety over the continuing mission in Syria, and a desire to be able to end it, is not exclusive to Trump.

In January, three American soldiers were killed at a US base in Jordan in a drone strike by Iran-backed militias operating in Syria and Iraq, as the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza threatened to spread farther in the region.

This attack and others have continued to raise questions to the Biden administration over US force levels and their exposure in the area.

In fact, many of the outgoing Biden and incoming Trump administrations' positions on Syria match more than they diverge.

Despite the sharp differences in the tone and rhetoric, both leaders want Damascus run by a government amenable to US interests.

Both Biden and Trump want to build on Iran and Russia's humiliation in Syria.

Trump's "this is not our fight, let it play out" is his equivalent of the Biden administration's "this is a process that needs to be led by Syrians, not by the United States".

But the "major" difference, and that which raises the most anxiety among Biden supporters, is in Trump's approach to US forces on the ground and American backing for the SDF, said Bassam Barabandi, a former Syrian diplomat in Washington who helped opposition figures flee the Assad regime.

"Biden has more sympathy, connection, passion towards [the Kurds]. Historically, he was one of the first senators to visit the Kurdish areas [of northern Iraq] after Saddam Hussein's Kuwait invasion," he said.

"Trump and his people they don't care as much… they take it into consideration not to leave their allies out, they get this, [but] the way they implement it is different."

Mr Barabandi, who said he supports Trump's non-interventionist rhetoric, thinks the president-elect will pull out US troops "for sure", but over a gradual timeframe and with a clear plan in place.

"It will not be like Afghanistan, within 24 hours," he said. "He will say within six months, or whatever time, a deadline for that and for the arrangement of everything."

American backing for the SDF has long been a source of tension with Turkey, which views the People's Defense Units (YPG) - the Kurdish force that makes up the SDF's military backbone - as a terrorist organisation.

Since Assad fell, Turkey has been carrying out air strikes to force Kurdish fighters out of strategic areas, including the town of Manbij.

Trump may want to cut a deal with his friend in Ankara that allows him to withdraw US troops and could see Turkey's hand strengthen further.

But the possibility of Turkish-backed groups taking control of some areas worries many, including Wa'el Alzayat, the former US State Department Syria expert.

"You can't have different groups running different parts of the country, controlling different resources," he added.

"There's either the political process, which I do think the US has a role to play, or something else, and I hope they avoid that latter scenario."

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'I felt like a breathing corpse': Stories from people freed from Syria torture prison​


Warning: This article contains descriptions of torture

The prisoners fell silent when they heard the shouting outside their cell door.

A man's voice called: "Is there anyone in there?" But they were too afraid to answer.

Over years, they had learnt that the door opening meant beatings, rapes and other punishments. But on this day, it meant freedom.

At the shout of "Allahu Akbar", the men inside the cell peered through a small opening in the centre of the heavy metal door.

They saw rebels in the prison's corridor instead of guards.

"We said 'We are here. Free us,'" one of the inmates, 30-year-old Qasem Sobhi Al-Qabalani, recalls.

As the door was shot open, Qasem says he "ran out with bare feet".

Like other inmates, he kept running and didn't look back.

"When they came to start liberating us and shouting 'all go out, all go out', I ran out of the prison but I was so terrified to look behind me because I thought they'd put me back," says 31-year-old Adnan Ahmed Ghnem.

They did not yet know that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad had fled the country and that his government had fallen. But the news soon reached them.

"It was the best day of my life. An unexplainable feeling. Like someone who had just escaped death," Adnan remembers.

Qasem and Adnan are among four prisoners the BBC has spoken to who were released this week from Saydnaya prison - a facility for political prisoners nicknamed the "human slaughterhouse".

All gave similar accounts of years of mistreatment and torture at the hands of guards, executions of fellow inmates, corruption by prison officials, and forced confessions.

We were also shown inside the prison by a former inmate who had a similar account, and heard from families of missing people held at Saydnaya who are desperately looking for answers.

We have seen bodies found by rebel fighters in the mortuary of a military hospital, believed to be Saydnaya detainees, that medics say bear signs of torture.

Rights group Amnesty International, whose 2017 report on the prison accuses authorities of murder and torture there, has called for "justice and reparations for crimes under international law in Syria", including its treatment of political prisoners.

Saydnaya prison, a sprawling complex located atop a hill of barren land and surrounded by barbed wire, was established in the early 1980s and for decades has been used to hold opponents of the Assad family regime.

It has been described as the country's main political prison since the 2011 uprising, when the Turkey-based Association of Detainees and The Missing in Saydnaya Prison says it effectively became a "death camp".

The prisoners we spoke to say they were sent to Saydnaya because of real or perceived links with the rebel Free Syrian Army, their opposition to Assad, or simply because they lived in an area known to oppose him.

Some had been accused of kidnapping and killing regime soldiers and convicted of terrorism.

All said they had given confessions under "pressure" and "torture".

They were given lengthy sentences or sentenced to death. One man said he had been detained at the prison for four years but had not yet been to court.

The men were held in the prison's main Red Building, for opponents of the regime.

Qasem says he was arrested while passing through a road block in 2016, accused of terrorism with the Free Syrian Army, and sent for short stints at several detention facilities before being transferred to Saydnaya.

"After that door, you are a dead person," he says softly in an interview at his family home in a town south of Damascus, as relatives gather around sipping coffee and nodding in grim captivation.

"This is where the torture began."

He recalls being stripped naked and told to pose for a photograph before being beaten for looking at the camera.

He says he was then put onto a chain with other inmates and led, with their faces staring at the ground, to a tiny solitary confinement cell where he and five other men were crammed in and given uniforms to wear but deprived of food and water for several days.

They were then taken to the prison's main cells, where the rooms have no beds, a single lightbulb and a small toilet area in the corner.

When we visited the prison this week, we saw blankets, clothes and food strewn on the floors of cells.

Our guide, a former inmate from 2019-2022, walked us through the corridors searching for his cell.

Two of his fingers and a thumb were chopped off at the prison, he says.

Finding scratch marks on a cell wall that he believes he made, he knelt down and began to cry.

About 20 men would sleep in each room, but the inmates tell us it was difficult to get to know each other - they could speak only in hushed voices and knew that guards were always watching and listening.

"Everything was banned. You're just allowed to eat and drink and sleep and die," says Qasem.

Punishments at Saydnaya were frequent and brutal.

All of the people we spoke to described being beaten with different implements - metal staffs, cables, electric sticks.

"They would enter the room and start to beat us all over our bodies. I would stay still, watching and waiting for my turn," Adnan, who was arrested in 2019 on accusations of kidnapping and killing a regime soldier, recalls.

"Every night, we would thank God that we were still alive. Every morning, we would pray to God, please take our souls so we can die in peace."

Adnan and two of the other newly released inmates said they were sometimes forced to sit with their knees towards their foreheads and a vehicle tyre placed over their bodies with a stick wedged inside so they couldn't move, before beatings were administered.

Forms of punishment were varied.

Qasem says he was held upside down by two prison officers in a barrel of water until he thought he was going to "choke and die".

"I saw death with my own eyes," he says. "They would do this if you woke up in the night, or we spoke in a loud voice, or if we had a problem with any of the other prisoners."

Two of the prisoners released this week and the former inmate at Saydnaya described witnessing sexual assaults by guards, who they said would anally rape inmates with sticks.

One man said inmates would offer oral sex to the guards in their desperation for more food.

Three described guards jumping on their bodies as part of the abuse.

In a hospital in central Damascus, we were introduced to 43-year-old Imad Jamal, who grimaced in pain at each touch from his mother who was tending to him at his bedside.

Asked to describe his time in Sayndaya, he smiled and responded slowly in English: "No eat. No sleep. Hit. Cane. Fighting. Sick. Everything not normal. Nothing normal. Everything abnormal."

He says he was detained in 2021 under what he described as a "political arrest" because of the area he was from.

Speaking again in Arabic, he says his back was broken when he was made to sit on the ground with his knees against his chest as a guard jumped from a ledge on top of him as a punishment for stealing medication from another inmate to give to a friend.

But for Imad, the hardest thing about life in the prison was the cold. "Even the wall was cold," he says. "I became a breathing corpse".

There were few things to look forward to in the prison, but three of the inmates said anything positive was met afterwards with punishment.

"Every time we had a shower, every time we had a visitor, every time we went out into the sun, every time we left the cell door we would be punished," says 30-year-old Rakan Mohammed Al Saed, who says he was detained in 2020 on allegations of killing and kidnapping from his former days in the rebel Free Syrian Army but had never faced trial.

He bares his broken teeth, saying they were knocked out when he was hit in the mouth by a guard with a stick.

All of the men we spoke to said they believed people in their cells had been executed.

Guards would come in and call names of people who would be led away and never seen again.

"People wouldn't be executed in front of us. Every time they would call names at 12am, we knew that those people were going to be killed," Adnan says.

Others gave similar accounts, explaining there was no way of them knowing what happened to these men.

Qasem's father and other relatives say the family were made to pay prison officials more than $10,000 to stop him from being executed - at first to be converted to life in prison and then to a 20-year sentence.

Qasem says his treatment by guards improved a bit after this.

But, his dad says, "they refused any amount to let him free".

Families sent loved ones money for food in the prison but they say corrupt officials would keep much of it and give the inmates only limited rations.

In some of the cells, inmates would pool all of the food together. But it wasn't enough.

Adnan found the hunger even harder than the beatings. "I would go to sleep and wake up hungry," he says.

"There was a punishment that we received one month where one day they would pass us a slice of bread, the next day half a slice, until it was a tiny crumb. Then it was nothing. We got no bread."

Qasem says one day guards covered the face of his cell's de-facto leader with yoghurt and made others lick it off.

The men said the behaviour of guards was as much about inflicting humiliation as pain.

All described losing significant amounts of weight in the prison because of malnourishment.

"My biggest dream was to eat and be full," Qasem says.

His family paid officers bribes for visitation rights. He would sometimes be brought down on a wheelchair because he was too weak to walk, his father says.

Diseases were rife and the inmates had no way of stopping them from spreading.

Two of the men we spoke to who were released on Sunday say they had contracted tuberculosis in Sayndaya - one said medication was frequently withheld as a form of punishment.

But Adnan says the "diseases from fear" were even worse than the physical ones.

At a hospital in Damascus this week, an official said brief medical checks of the detainees that were sent there had found "mainly psychological problems".

These accounts paint a picture of a place with no hope, only pain.

The prisoners spent much of their time in silence with no access to the outside world, so it is no surprise that they say they knew nothing of the rebel Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) rapid advance in Syria until they were broken free that morning.

Qasem said they could hear what sounded like a helicopter taking off from the hospital grounds before the men's shouts in the corridors. But in the windowless cell they couldn't be sure.

Then the doors opened, and the freed inmates began running as fast as they could.

"We ran out of the prison. We ran from fear too," Rakan says, his thoughts on his young children and wife.

At one point in the chaos, he says, "I was hit by a car. But I didn't mind. I got up and carried on running."

He says he will never go back to Saydnaya again.

Adnan, too, says he couldn't look back at the prison, as he ran crying towards Damascus.

"I just kept going. I can't describe it. I just headed for Damascus. People were taking us from the road in their cars."

He now fears each night when he goes to sleep that he will wake in the prison, and find it was all a dream.

Qasem ran to a town called Tal Mneen. It was there that a woman who provided the freed prisoners with food, money and clothing told them: "Assad has fallen".

He was brought to his hometown where celebratory gunfire rang out and his tearful family embraced him.

"It's like I am born again. I can't describe it to you," he says.

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US, regional diplomats meet in Jordan to discuss Syria’s future​


Top diplomats from the United States, Turkey, the European Union and Arab nations met in Jordan on Saturday for talks on Syria following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden’s administration has begun engaging with the victorious opposition groups including the Military Operations Administration, which led a lightning assault that ended in the capture of Damascus on Sunday.

Biden sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region this week to seek support for principles that Washington hopes will guide Syria’s political transition, such as respect for minorities.

Meanwhile Syria’s northern neighbor Turkey has for years supported Syrian opposition forces looking to oust al-Assad and is poised to play an influential role in Damascus.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that his country’s embassy in the Syrian capital would resume work on Saturday, after Turkey’s intelligence chief visited this week.

Syria’s neighbor Jordan was hosting Saturday’s gathering in Aqaba. Russia and Iran, who were al-Assad’s key supporters, were not invited.

Blinken, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pederson and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Fidan and foreign ministers from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar met around a circular table at a Jordanian government guesthouse. There was no Syrian representative at the table.

The Arab diplomats earlier met separately.

Blinken, meeting Pederson at his hotel earlier on Saturday, said it was a time of “both opportunity but also real challenge” for Syria.

Arab diplomats attending the talks told Reuters they were seeking assurances from Turkey that it supports an inclusive political process that prevents partition of Syria on sectarian lines.

Turkey and the United States, both NATO members, have conflicting interests when it comes to some of the opposition.
Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria have clashed with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

The SDF, which controls some of Syria’s largest oil fields, is the main ally in a US coalition against ISIS. It is spearheaded by YPG militia, a group that Ankara sees as an extension of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants who have fought the Turkish state for 40 years and who it outlaws.

Blinken told Turkish officials during a visit to Ankara on Thursday and Friday that ISIS must not be able to regroup, and the SDF must not be distracted from its role of securing camps holding ISIS fighters, according to a US official with the US delegation. Turkish leaders agreed, the official said.

Fidan told Turkish TV later on Friday that the elimination of the YPG was Turkey’s “strategic target” and urged the group’s commanders to leave Syria.

 
Lebanon’s PM calls on Syrian refugees to return to homeland

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati calls on Syrians who sought refuge in the country to return home.

“The consequences of the Syrian war made Lebanon home to the largest number of refugees per capita, with one-third of our population comprising of Syrian refugees”, Mikati said at a Rome political festival.

“The strain on our resources has been substantial, worsening existing economic trouble and creating fierce competition for jobs and services,” he said, adding the “best resolution to this issue is for Syrians to go back to their homeland”.

According to the UN Refugee Agency, about 1.5 million Syrian refugees live in Lebanon after many fled their country following the 2011 civil war.

Source: Al Jazeera
 
US officials in 'direct contact' with victorious Syria rebels

The US has made "direct contact" with the HTS rebels who now control Syria after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

It is the first acknowledgement of direct American contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which the US currently still designates as a terrorist organisation.

Blinken was speaking in Jordan after talks with representatives from several Arab countries, Turkey and Europe to discuss the future of Syria.

Officials agreed to support a peaceful transition process in the country, with Jordan's foreign minister saying that regional powers did not want to see it "descend into chaos".

A joint communique called for an inclusive Syrian government that respects the rights of minorities and does not offer a base for "terrorist groups".

The talk both inside and outside Syria after the tumultuous events of recent weeks has been of the vital importance of setting up new governance that represents all Syrians.

At the meeting in Jordan, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein expressed concern over Syria's future shared across the Middle East and beyond.

He said regional players did not want to see another Libya - referring to the chaos that ensued after Colonel Gaddafi's removal from power.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said existing Syrian institutions must be preserved and reformed.

"Never allow terrorism to take advantage of the transition period. And we have to coordinate our efforts and learn from the mistakes of the past," Fidan said according to Reuters news agency.

Meanwhile, Israel has launched dozens more air strikes against Syria, according to a war monitor, despite regional condemnation.

Israel has previously said it was taking action to "destroy strategic capabilities" that threaten it.

The most powerful rebel group, HTS, has indicated that it is seeking an inclusive government. But the group's violent jihadist past has left some doubting whether it will live up to such promises.

Blinken has said that Washington has been in direct contact with HTS - in particular over the fate of the long missing American journalist, Austin Tice.

"We've been in contact with HTS and with other parties," Blinken told reporters in Jordan.

Missing from the talks in Jordan was any representative from Syria. The foreign ministers from eight Arab countries that did attend the meeting said they wanted to ensure that Syria was unified and not split along sectarian lines.

Also absent were the two countries that gave financial support to Assad that enabled him to survive in power for so long - Iran and Russia.

The shadow of all the outside forces that battled over Syria for so long hangs heavy on the country's future.

The emerging political entities in Syria will need cohesion not just inside the country but outside, too, if there is to be any real hope for the Syrian people to build on the heady taste of freedom that they have experienced in the past week.

Syrian rebels ended Bashar al-Assad's 24-year-long rule, with opposition forces taking the capital and forcing the president to flee to Russia on 8 December.

The overthrow followed a 13-year civil war, which started after Assad crushed pro-democracy protests. The fighting killed more than half a million people, displaced millions more, and embroiled international powers and their proxies.

HTS rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, who previously used the name Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, has appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as Syria's interim prime minister, and the world is now watching to see how Syria's political landscape shapes up after the end of the Assad family's half-century rule.

HTS was set up under a different name, Jabhat al-Nusra, in 2011 as a direct al-Qaeda affiliate. It was considered to be one of the most effective and deadly groups opposing President Assad.

It was proscribed as a terrorist group by the UN, the US, Turkey and other countries - and currently remains so.

But al-Sharaa has publicly broken ranks with al-Qaeda and HTS's recent messaging has been one of inclusiveness and a rejection of violence or revenge.

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Israel launches dozens of airstrikes on Syria despite rebel leader's peace pledge

Israel struck dozens of sites in Syria overnight with airstrikes, despite the Syrian rebel leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, saying his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group was not interested in conflict with Israel.

The latest airstrikes follow a statement by Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, that Israeli troops, who seized the Golan Heights buffer zone with Syria last week, would remain for the winter on Mount Hermon in positions they occupied last week.

Katz’s office said in a statement that “due to what is happening in Syria, there is enormous security importance to our holding on to the peak”.

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, a nom de guerre used by Ahmed al-Sharaa, told Syrian state media: “There are no excuses for any foreign intervention in Syria now after the Iranians have left. We are not in the process of engaging in a conflict with Israel.”

Jolani said Israel was using false pretexts to justify its attacks on Syria, but that he was not interested in engaging in new conflicts as the country focused on rebuilding following the end of Bashar al-Assad’s reign.

He added that “diplomatic solutions” were the only way to ensure stability stability and rather than “ill-considered military adventures”.

“Israeli arguments have become weak and no longer justify their recent violations. The Israelis have clearly crossed the lines of engagement in Syria, which poses a threat of unwarranted escalation in the region,” Jolani said.

“Syria’s war-weary condition, after years of conflict and war, does not allow for new confrontations. The priority at this stage is reconstruction and stability, not being drawn into disputes that could lead to further destruction.”

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel fired 61 missiles at Syrian military sites in less than five hours on Saturday evening.

Israeli air raids hit bases, heavy weapons, sites associated with the former Assad regime’s missile and chemical weapons programme, and destroyed Syria’s small naval force in port of Latakia.

The continuing strikes have prompted mounting concern among diplomats and international officials concerned over what they fear may be an open-ended new occupation of Syrian territory.

The UN has called on Israel to withdraw from the buffer zone, which sits between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, said he was “deeply concerned by the recent and extensive violations of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”.

France, Germany and Spain have also called on Israel to withdraw from the demilitarized zone.

The UN has said Israel is in violation of a 1974 disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria that established the buffer zone. Israel has said the 1974 disengagement agreement “collapsed” with the fall of the Assad regime government.

Responding to Jolani, the Israel Defence Forces chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, said, “We aren’t intervening in what is happening in Syria. We have no intention of administering Syria.”

“There was an enemy country here. Its army collapsed. There is a threat that terror elements will come here, and we advanced so … extreme terror elements won’t settle close to the border with us.

“We are unequivocally intervening only in what determines Israeli citizens’ security. The deployment along the entire border, from Mt Hermon to the meeting of the Israeli-Syrian-Jordanian border, is proper.”

According to reports, among the sites hit over the over the weekend were military headquarters, Syrian army positions, radars, and arms caches and assets of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center, which was responsible for developing advanced weapons.

Israel also estimates it has destroyed much of the Syrian air force’s infrastructure and aircraft.

The scale of the Israeli bombing campaign has surprised many western capitals who had believed that any Israeli strikes would be limited to chemical weapons and missiles sites rather than an effort aimed at the wholesale destruction of the Syria’s military, which has had 70% of its capabilities destroyed in hundreds of attacks.

The latest Israeli air raids came as the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, wound up talks with Jordan, Turkey and Iraq with the aim of trying to shape the future of post-Assad Syria by forging consensus among regional partners and allies whose interests often diverge.

“We know that what happens inside of Syria can have powerful consequences well beyond its borders, from mass displacement to terrorism,” he told reporters in Aqaba, Jordan. “And we know that we can’t underestimate the challenges of this moment.”

Blinken also confirmed contacts between the Biden administration and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Blinken would not discuss details of the direct contacts with HTS but said it was important for the US to convey messages to the group about its conduct and how it intended to govern in a transition period.

SOURCE:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...es-on-syria-despite-rebel-leader-peace-pledge
 
Thousands of Syrians return home via Turkish border, says minister

More than 7,600 Syrians crossed the Turkish border to return home in the five days after the fall of the Assad regime, Turkey's interior minister has revealed.

Posting on X, Ali Yerlikaya said the number of Syrians who returned via Turkey in the three days from 6-8 December totalled 726.

He said they had done so "voluntarily, safely, honourably and regularly".

The number shot up after rebels overthrew Bahar al Assad, with 1,259 Syrians crossing on 9 December, the day after Damascus came under rebel control.

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'Assad's torturers unwelcome in Germany', says foreign minister

Germany's foreign minister says anyone involved in atrocities for the ousted Syrian government that try to seek refuge in the country will face "the full force of the law".

Germany has a large population of Syrian refugees and previously convicted former Syrian secret police officers in 2021 for overseeing or facilitating the abuse of detainees.

"To any of Assad's torturers who might be considering fleeing to Germany now, I can only say clearly: We will bring all the regime's henchmen to account for their terrible crimes with the full force of the law," Annalena Baerbock told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

She called for international security authorities and intelligence services to work closely together.

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Al-Assad says Syria ‘in the hands of terrorism’

The former president is purported to have said that the country is now in “the hands of terrorism” in what appears to be his first statement since he was deposed.

“I have never sought positions for personal gain but have always considered myself as a custodian of a national project, supported by the faith of the Syrian people, who believed in its vision,” he said in a statement attributed to al-Assad and released on the Syrian presidency’s Telegram channel.

“I have carried an unwavering conviction in their will and ability to protect the state, defend its institutions, and uphold their choices to the very last moment.

“When the state falls into the hands of terrorism and the ability to make a meaningful contribution is lost, any position becomes void of purpose, rendering its occupation meaningless.

“This does not, in any way, diminish my profound sense of belonging to Syria and her people – a bond that remains unshaken by any position or circumstance. It is a belonging filled with hope that Syria will once again be free and independent.”

Al-Assad brutally suppressed a peaceful uprising against his rule in 2011. During the subsequent war, his regime was characterised by its indiscriminate bombing and starvation of opposition areas, systematic torture, corruption and the use of chemical weapons.

Source: Al Jazeera
 
American Media is reporting Israel aggression in Syria as an opportunity which Israel seized wow..
 
JaDed said:
American Media is reporting Israel aggression in Syria as an opportunity which Israel seized wow..
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Israel wants to expand it's borders, maybe they will be hoping to make more room for settlers from Europe and the USA. You can't really blame them, they know they can take whatever land they want, they will get the support of western nations for the most part.
 
Assad says he didn't intend to leave Syria, statement claims

Syria's former President Bashar al-Assad says he never intended to flee to Russia - in what is purported to be his first statement since the fall of Damascus eight days ago.

Assad's reported statement was put on the Telegram channel belonging to the Syrian presidency on Monday, although it is not clear who currently controls it - or whether he wrote it.

In it he says that, as the Syrian capital fell to rebels, he went to a Russian military base in Latakia province "to oversee combat operations" only to see that Syrian troops had abandoned positions.

Hmeimim airbase had also come under "intensified attack by drone strikes" and the Russians had decided to airlift him to Moscow, he says.


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Bashar al-Assad says he didn't intend to leave Syria, statement claims

In what appears to be his first reaction since fleeing Syria, the former president says Russia decided to airlift him to Moscow.
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